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Since, obviously, no written records exist detailing how the Aborigines lived thousands of years ago, anthropologists can only speculate, based on Aboriginal painting, middens and other data. It is known that Aborigines lived a nomadic lifestyle, moving from area to area as food dwindled in one region. Tribes would move to where they knew certain foods could be found in different seasons, e.g. the Bogong moths of the high country, the bunya nuts of Queensland, and so on. Aborigines were hunters and gatherers. They gathered yams from under the ground, dug up witchetty grubs and found edible bush fruits. The men hunted for wild animals, which included a variety of mammals, reptiles, birds and fish. Aborigines also used fire to flush out their game, or to regenerate plant growth and renew the landscape.

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